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Vinoooooooooo!!!! ________________________________ From: Dinesh Scaran <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 January, 2010 11:30:34 PM Subject: [arr] Re: THE BIRTH OF A WHITE FLOWER Excellent write up!!! I loved every single line of it... --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, "A.R.Rajib" <a.r.ra...@. ..> wrote: > > THE BIRTH OF A WHITE FLOWER*By Behindwoods Visitor Ram Anand (Malaysia)** The > views expressed in this column are that of the visitor. Behindwoods. com > doesn't hold responsible for its content.* > Some 18 years ago, singer Unni Menon was given a call way past midnight, > awoken in his slumber, and was told that accomplished director Mani Ratnam > is recording songs for his new film and Menon's voice was required for one > of those numbers. Who works at this hour, Menon asked himself. But due to > the fact that the name involved was called Mani Ratnam, Menon freshened > himself up and rushed up to the mentioned recording studio, where he saw a > young composer calling the shots. > > Mani Ratnam, who so often works with Maestro Ilayaraja, has discovered a new > talent to associate with in the music department. Menon wondered > continuously if this young guy- whose name is AR Rahman, could really live > up to the humongous expectations of having to compose for a Mani Ratnam > film. He was given the song lyrics, the tunes were discussed, and on the wee > hours of that one day back in 1992, Menon recorded a song called `Pudhu > Vellai Mazhai' (A new white rain), and went back home, back to his slumber. > The doubts that he had before recording the song existed even after that- he > didn't think he had sung the catchiest of tunes. Little did he know, that > when he went to sleep that day, just like lyrics of the song proclaims, he > has witnessed a new white rain, that will reign the Indian music arena over > the following two decades. All the uncertainties over the song that he had > sung vanished into thin air as he listened to the final version of the song > one day- and as he listened, he realized that this song is not catchy, but > instead it makes the hair on the back of one's neck stand up and applaud. > > That AR Rahman back then was 26 years old. Today, as > [image: AR Rahman] > he turns 44, that white rain has poured down not only in Tamil Nadu, but up > until on Hollywood's most famous stage- the Oscar stage. Rahman was the very > first composer in Indian cinema history to win a National Award for his very > first film, an award that he would go on to claim two more times. An > honorary doctorate and a Padmashri, India's fourth highest civilian honor, > are just a little peek into a mass collection of awards and applauds that > this modest, humble, soft-spoken name with an ever present smile on his face > has achieved in his career. That innocent smile never waned even as he stood > next and around the best luminaries of Hollywood while collecting his piece > of the biggest cinema cherry in the world, nor did it wane as he stood > flanked by beautiful girls in Akon's Beautiful Girls music video. > > What is so special about his music, some may ask. Who introduced Hariharan > and Shankar Mahadevan, two of the most famous, most accomplished male > singers in the industry today? Who made Hariharan sing `Thamizha Thamizha' > with such sensitivity? Who is it that managed to evoke the atmosphere of an > unborn child who is going to be born into a world of chaos and uncertainty > through Vellai Pookal? Who is it that managed to re-create a 50s and 60s > atmosphere without sounding like direct throwback in Iruvar? Who is it that > re-composed India's national anthem with such passion and ferocity? Who is > it that made the whole nation re-kindle a long-buried Vande Matharam? AR > Rahman is not only a good composer, he is a symbol- a symbol of a nation > struggling to unleash itself from the strangling, rusting ropes of past > differences and attempting to move forward as one, as one whole country. He > is a symbol of passion, of the ultimate craftsmanship an artist could ever > express with his own work. Above all, he is the perfect symbol of an artist, > a celebrity. A man who has the talent to put the world at his awe, but has > the humility to not take all the credit for his achievements. A man who has > the calmness to rise above petty differences and embrace goodwill as his > nature, and has that smile that shows, without having to tell, that he loves > what he is doing, that we love what he is doing, and God loves what he is > doing. > > Ever lost hope? Ever lost faith in goodness? Ever lost faith in the beauty > of life? Ever lost faith in the impact of talent and artistry? Look up to AR > Rahman. > > Today as this man turns forty-four, there is no gift that we could possibly > give him that would override 18 years of him showering us with gifts of > music. But what we could do is to forget that he is forty-four, and make him > immortal along with his music. > > Many more happy returns of the day. > > For, > > AR Rahman- You are the rare white flower (Vellai Poo) that tomorrow needs. > May there be more white flowers like you to come in this world. > > By, > Ram Anand (Malaysia) > ram.observer88@ ... > > > > http://www.behindwo ods.com/features /visitors- 1/ar-rahman- mani-ratnam- > ilayaraja- 07-01-10. html > -- > - Regards > > ~ ~ A.R.Rajib ~ ~ > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
